Posted on 11/17/2025 2:48:29 PM PST by V_TWIN
“We’re gonna be issuing dividends later on, somewhere prior to — the middle of next year, a little bit later than that,” he said, noting it would include “Thousands of dollars, for individuals of moderate income.”
[Scott] Bessent also floated a rough income limit of $100,000 that would disqualify higher income families from receiving the dividend.
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The one saving grace?
Excel. Exceed. Strive. Adapt.
But yeah, it gets tiring. Make another dollar and really? You need to make *two* dollars to come out ahead of the government handout and now inflation.
So, you work harder to make *two* dollars rather than *one*... and it feels like a losing effort to stay ahead of the game.
I’m glad I’m almost done. I feel nothing but sympathy for my kids (and wow, my grandkids) - but I’ve done the best I can to try to teach them how it works.
FR is one of the darkest anti Trump corners of the internet. This cry baby thread is a prime example. They only hate. These asshole TDS trolls never say what they want.
You teach? God help them.
None of the issues you raised is Trumps fault. Take your hormonal crybaby issues somewhere else. Attack our enemies and not Trump.
Rather than try to explain to you how math, basic economics, and the like work?
Let me just say this... I think it’s a terrible idea for the US economy, but I’ll make you a deal:
Completely eliminate the income tax and make tariffs 100000000000000000000000% Go for it. I will make that trade. I think it’s a terrible idea, but whatever, I couldn’t care less any more. I’ll spend - and save and invest - my money appropriately and you can get your wet dream.
Deal?
All talk and bluster, never see a dime of it I bet..
17 years? Was it a MayTag?
It’s wealth redistribution, period. Mamdani, Sanders, AOC and all socialists probably love it.
The problem is the arbitrary nature with this. Someone at the poverty line pays zero taxes and is a drain on the economy. But someone at $105,000, that actually pumps dollars into the economy wouldn’t receive anything? Either pay it to everyone, or none at all. I vote for paying down the American debt. Now maybe if we could seriously cut more spending.
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And look at credit card interest rates...they border on usuary. The Mafia must be envious. Of course the congress doesn’t care because the financial industry donates tons of money to them to look the other way.
You're right.
But Trump is trying to help his party to defend their seats in Congress in 2026. Then he'll prepare his successor to be in a good position to keep the White House in 2028.
More than anything, it's really important that we win in 2026 and 2028. Then the Electoral College will be favorable after 2030 because the red states will be +10 by then.
“Now, we get both kinds of redistribution of my money... the leftist “give it to the poor” and the right-side “give it to the ‘moderate’ income”
Politicians buy votes for the next election with borrowed money. The estimated deficit for 2024 is $1.8T.
Gimmicks pissme off because we are retired and now areFORC3D to take retirement funds out which will boost our income just enough so we AGAIN get nothing.
Good post, punish the successful— just like means testing no-taxes on social security and the three past stimulus payments. Socialism light at work.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61307
How about reading a history book about the USA? If you ever did you’d find out that the federal government was funded by tariffs before the disastrous income tax started to replace it.
Funny how you are a fan of the income tax but hate the best consumption based tax: the tariff.
Here is some math for you. Most of the federal govt spending goes to SS and Medicare. We could argue about those but FICA covers that. In case you don’t know FICA are also called payroll taxes. The rest of federal discretionary spending could easily be covered by tariffs and a National Retail Sales Tax.
Yeah, and I wonder how many “moderate income” families around the $84,600. income mark will be forced to pay up for ACA/Obamacare coverage because the $2K will push them over the $84,600 income limit for an ACA subsidy? (Thousands or ??) Likely to lose more than $2K in ACA subsidy $.
It’s been decades since I didn’t have a dishwasher. I’d be bereft without one. I hope mine lasts another 10 years.
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